Romanian E-Commerce Trends

Abstract:

Our lives changed completely in the last years, this is to the creation and highly utilization of the Internet. Before we used to wait for our mails in the post for weeks, calling abroad was an expensive option definitely not fit for everyday using, and many other examples, but today the things are different. Everything changed, now we can send e-mails, now we can make free calls with different websites and applications, we can send free messages, we can meet people, we can do a lot of things over the internet, but the most important aspect for us is that now we can even make our shopping online. The Internet caused a revolution in selling nearly everybody who uses an internet connection bought something online. We are becoming very close to say goodbye to the conventional shopping, yes we will still go to buy bread, toilet paper and make the grocery from the hypermarket or from mega image, BUT we already started to buy our clothing online, to buy our electronics online, we pay for the holidays online, we even take medicine from the online medium, and this is not the start, for some of us we already very used buying our stuff online. The Romanias are great buyers, in 2016 Romanian people spent more than 1.8 Billion Eur, and this is only for shopping, not for service payments, like bills payments, tickets to events and concerts, and without holidays payments, like plane tickets or hotel reservations.

• Periodical: Advanced Engineering Forum (Volume 27)
• Pages: 274-279
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AEF.27.274
• Online since: April 2018
• Authors: Silviu Valentin Miroslav*, Mirona Ana Maria Popescu
• Keywords: E-Commerce, Romanian E-Commerce Trends, Romanian Mobile E-Commerce, Romanian Online Market

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